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False note: Opera singer/fighter slugs thugs

By Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com

Friday, October 30, 2009

Most street predators would feel confident in rolling Placido Domingo over: In addition to being wealthy, he's not very ambulatory. But some UK thieves picked the wrong opera singer to accost on Oct. 12. That's when, according to the Kilburn Times, singer Jake Furey defended himself as only a fighter-slash-singer could: By punching and screaming at them. "One of [them] hit me in the face but it was nothing so I jumped back into the road to give myself more room and got my fists up ready," Furey ...

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